Jotspot Coming to Google Apps as Google Wiki? — Since acquiring Jotspot last October, Google has been busy working on integrating the wiki service into its infrastructure. — In April this year, Jotspot's help and support pages moved to Google and a few months later Dave Girouard mentioned …

Link by Link: Whiting Out the Ads, but at What Cost? — MORE white space. — I sent an e-mail message to a friend telling him about Adblock Plus, an easy-to-use free addition to the Firefox Internet browser that deletes advertisements from Web sites. That subject line of his reply summed it up quite nicely.

Adblock Plus: the nuclear plug-in — Adblock Plus, the Firefox browser plug-in that erases advertisements from web pages, is a killer of a killer app - or at least it would be if it became widely popular. Right now, it sits like a coyote at the edge of the net, quietly eyeing all the businesses it would happily devour.

Five Facts About Google Phone — Is Google (GOOG) Phone fact or fiction? Engadget says Google's entry into mobile phone business is for real, and the company is going to announce it soon. Scott Kirsner talked to a bunch of folks over who are intimately familiar with the effort and outlined …

Return Of The Schwag — The true hard core geek/fanboy crowd loved ValleySchwag when it launched in the Spring of 2006. For $15 per month you would receive a package containing tshirts, stickers, pens and other junk that new startups pay a fortune to have created with their logo printed on it.

The hundred gadget giveaway starts midnight tonight — This one goes out to all the folks who've been waiting ever so patiently to take home some gear in an Engadget giveaway. This week we're giving away over a hundred gadgets, games, swag bags, and the like — including an HDTV, a DSLR …

7 Reasons Why Microsoft is DOOMED! — Not this year, not next year... but soon - almost certainly by the next decade. — #1. Their business model is a dead-end. - Back when Microsoft first started business in 1980, software as a commodity was still a fuzzy concept.

Chinese military hacked into Pentagon — By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and Richard McGregor in Beijing — The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American ­officials.

Can you digg it? — As the social bookmarking site Digg often proves, mob wisdom is not always right - but it is interesting — Digg.com: the wisdom of crowds? — The internet is big. Really big, as Douglas Adams once said of space. You'd need an army of people to monitor it and find things of interest.

Coming soon: hard drives with 1GB+ DDR RAM cache — Hard drives have long utilized small bits of cache memory to boost performance, and some recent hybrid hard drives already combine up to 256MB of NAND flash memory with traditional platter-based storage. Now a Japanese company called DTS …

A boring rant — In the interest of keeping items brief I've cut the previous post and put the boring stuff here. Enjoy. Or don't enjoy, as the case may be. Skip over it. Whatever. — It's not just Disney and ABC that are out of touch. Look at the management team at NBC Universal.

CyberNotes: Exclusive Opera 9.5 Features & Video — CyberNet Exclusive Look — We've decided to break away from our normal CyberNotes today to take an exclusive look at the features in Opera 9.5 (codename Kestrel). Opera has done a remarkable job of keeping the specs and features of Opera 9.5 under wraps.

Mobiles to become digital wallets — The UK's big five mobile phone firms have switched on a payment system that turns handsets into digital wallets. — Called PayForIt, the scheme is designed for those buying goods and services with a value of up to £10.